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American Roaming Network, PagePlus, T-Mobile, 7-11 Speak Out, Tracfone,
Net10, Jitterbug, InPulse, AT&T, and Only1 Mobile (may be out of
business) all allow roaming either included or at extra cost.

I can't speak for the other carriers, but our T-Mobile handsets,
while away in the glorious SouthWest for a couple of weeks recently,
several times found themselves in GSM territory served only by
Cingular/AT&T_Wireless, and were unable to register as roamers.

Seems like some sort of alternate-domestic-carrier lockout scheme (or
lack of appropriate roamming agreements with AT&T) on the part of T-Mo,
for roaming was never a problem in Canada, Europe, China, or most of
the rest of GSM Asia.

American Roaming Network, PagePlus, T-Mobile, 7-11 Speak Out, Tracfone,
Net10, Jitterbug, InPulse, AT&T, and Only1 Mobile (may be out of
business) all allow roaming either included or at extra cost.

I can't speak for the other carriers, but our T-Mobile handsets,
while away in the glorious SouthWest for a couple of weeks recently,
several times found themselves in GSM territory served only by
Cingular/AT&T_Wireless, and were unable to register as roamers.

Seems like some sort of alternate-domestic-carrier lockout scheme (or
lack of appropriate roamming agreements with AT&T) on the part of T-Mo,
for roaming was never a problem in Canada, Europe, China, or most of
the rest of GSM Asia.

It's simply a lack of roaming agreements. I was just in Arizona and New
Mexico last week and did a lot of roaming on Alltel and a New Mexico
regional carrier called Plateau Wireless. Do your phones support 850MHz? I
think the Alltel coverage is on 850 (but I could be wrong.)

It'd have to be a pretty old T-Mobile (or Voicestream) phone to be 1900
MHz only. Or one of those crippled tri-band phones that are 900/1800/1900
that were sold a while back.

Or, it could be a perfectly nice modern phone designed for the European
market. I had my eye on a few European market Toshiba and Samsung
smartphones (I'm a Windows Mobile snob, but don't much care for HTC
products) about a year ago that surprisingly lacked 850, so I passed.

It'd have to be a pretty old T-Mobile (or Voicestream) phone to be
1900 MHz only. Or one of those crippled tri-band phones that are
900/1800/1900 that were sold a while back.

Or, it could be a perfectly nice modern phone designed for the
European market. I had my eye on a few European market Toshiba and
Samsung smartphones (I'm a Windows Mobile snob, but don't much care
for HTC products) about a year ago that surprisingly lacked 850, so I passed.

Or, it could be a perfectly nice modern phone designed for the
European market. I had my eye on a few European market Toshiba and
Samsung smartphones (I'm a Windows Mobile snob, but don't much care
for HTC products) about a year ago that surprisingly lacked 850, so I
passed.

What don't you like about HTC products ?

Despite making phones the size of bricks and twice as heavy, they can't seem
to squeeze in room for a standard headphone jack. Until the release of the
iPhone lit a fire under their keister, they used slow processors, precious
little memory and storage, and tiny screens. Evry HTC phone I've ever used
needed to replaced at least once (under warranty thankfully) for button or
screen faliures (my AT&T Tilt, my fourth HTC phone, is in the shop now- the
camera stopped autofocusing.)

Despite making phones the size of bricks and twice as heavy, they
can't seem to squeeze in room for a standard headphone jack. Until
the release of the iPhone lit a fire under their keister, they used
slow processors, precious little memory and storage, and tiny
screens. Evry HTC phone I've ever used needed to replaced at least
once (under warranty thankfully) for button or screen faliures (my
AT&T Tilt, my fourth HTC phone, is in the shop now- the camera
stopped autofocusing.)